FIG Foundation - Building a Sustainable Future

THE FIG FOUNDATION

- BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE

To give grants and scholarships to projects, for instance to
develop curricula for surveying education, training and capacity
building, especially in developing countries;

To encourage research into all disciplines of surveying and
to disseminate the results of that research;

To promote high standards of education and training for
surveyors and to facilitate continuing professional development;

To educate people in the disciplines of surveying,
particularly in developing countries and countries in
transition;

To promote the use of distance learning, networking ,
eLearning and knowledge management if surveying education and
continuing professional development;
To promote the exchange of surveying personnel for greater
understanding of all facets of the profession of surveying;

To support by seed funding conferences, meetings of young
surveyors and similar events in co-operation with international
agencies such as the United Nations.

The FIG Foundation invites all Young Surveyors to
apply for funds to participate in the 1st Young Surveyors
African Meeting (YSAM) and the 2018 FIG-African Regional Network
Meeting taking place in Gaborone, Botswana, on the 16th and
17th-19th of October respectively.

On 12th of September, 2018, the selection will be made
and announced by the FIG Foundation. Please note that
the FIG Foundation grant will support travel and
accommodation costs. All other costs are the
responsibility of the successful recipient of a grant

FIG
Foundation Grant to attend the FIG Young Surveyors North America Meeting

17-18 October 2018, College Park, Maryland, United
States

NSPS and the FIG Young Surveyors Network are
hosting the 2018 NSPS/FIG Young Surveyors North American Meeting.
There will be sessions on the NGS 2022 Datum update, leadership,
business, and technology.

The FIG Foundation would like to invite all Young Surveyors
to apply for funds to participate in the meeting.

To apply, please fill in the form at the link below and all
of its required fields. Please remember, to submit all
additional documents to nspsyoungsurveyors@gmail.com before the deadline
17 August 2018.

FIG Foundation Young Surveyor grants for 2018 FIG
Congress

The FIG Foundation would like to invite all Young
Surveyors (defined as 35 years old or younger, or
within 10 years of graduation with a Bachelors or Masters
degree in surveying/geomatics) to apply for funds to
participate in the 4th FIG Young Surveyors Conference and
the XXVI FIG Congress to be held in Istanbul, Turkey, 4-11
May 2018

To apply, please fill out the form at the link below and
all of its required fields. Please remember, to submit all
additional documents to fig.ysn.funds@gmail.com on
or before the DEADLINE OF 27 JANUARY 2018.
Failure to do so will result in your application not being
considered.

FIG Foundation Grants in 2017

The Ph.D. Scholarship 2016 was awared to Mr Wallace
Mukupa, Zambia​, presently at the University of Nottingham,
Ningbo, China for his project: Structural Change Detection
and Deformation Monitoring. He got his peer review paper
accepted for oral presentation for the FIG Working Week
2017, and this released a FIG Foundation travel and
registration grant to attend the Working Week.
Read
his story

FIG Foundation is supporting Young Surveyors to
attend the FIG Working Week in Helsinki, Finland

The FIG Foundation Young Surveyors Fellowships will
provide funding for individuals to cover the costs to attend
and participate in the FIG Working Week 2017, including
participation in all FIG Young Surveyors activities before
and during the Working Week.

The Fellowships will be awarded exclusively to nationals
of developing countries¹ who must be living in one of the
eligible countries.

The FIG Working Week 2017 will be held in Helsinki,
Finland, 29 May ‐ 2 June. In addition to the Working Week,
the FIG Young Surveyors European Meeting (Sunday 28 May) and
young surveyors sessions will be organised and contribute to
the networking of young surveyors internationally, to
introduce young surveyors to the FIG community, and to
provide for the opportunity to learn more and share the
young surveyors’ vision for the future of FIG. Additionally
the FIG Foundation Fellowship winners are invited to join
the UN-Habitat GLTN Awareness Training on STDM on 29 May.

FIG Foundation meeting 2016 in 2016 in Christchurch,
New Zealand

FIG Board of Directors, from left President John Hohol,
William Marbell, Trimble, Prof. Mike Barry, Ir. Liza
Groenendijk and Prof. Paul van der Molen all wearing the
Young Surveyors shirt that was used at the Charity Run,
organised by the Young Surveyors that also raised funds for
the FIG Foundation.

FIG Foundation wants to thank those who have worked
actively throughout the year for the Foundation and to
promote FIG and the Foundation around the world.

FIG Foundation meeting 2014 was held in conjunction with
the FIG Congress in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

The board held its official meeting in Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia during the 2014 Congress. Furthermore the board has
been in frequent contact through email.

At the meeting Young Surveyors were represented by Chair
Kate Fairlie and Chair Elect Eva- Maria Unger, who thanked
FIG Foundation for the cooperation throughout the last
years.

Eva Maria Unger informed that CNGeGL, the National
Council of Italian Surveyors, has decided not to continue to
offer the International Training Course on Topography for
Young Surveyors. Everyone expressed gratitude to the
Italians for having offered the course and agreed that it is
very unfortunate that this great opportunity for young
surveyors to meet and experience new knowledge is no longer
available.

There was a discussion of the funding of the Young
Surveyors Meetings, if it is permanent. It was agreed that
the funding should not become permanent and should not
exclude others of being supported.

At the meeting in Kuala Lumpur the board expressed
sincere thanks to Keith Hofgartner representing FIG Platinum
Corporate Member Trimble Navigation for generous continued
support of the foundation including sponsorship of the FIG
Foundation Dinner.

John Hohol informed that Trimble had had several requests
from a school in Burkina Faso about funding of equipment.
Trimble asked FIG Foundation to cosponsor a donation. To
make sure that funding will help to improve the learning
environment it was decided that Trimble is to deliver an
analysis of the state of the art of the school.

International Federation of Surveyors, FIG, is a United Nations and World Bank recognized
non-governmental organization of national member associations
and covers the whole range of professional fields within the
global surveying community. It provides an international forum
for discussion and development aiming to promote professional
practice and standards.